Lap Steel Pickup Height

Setting up a lap steel guitar and shop talk thanks for stopping by today.

Lap steel pickup height. Setting your pickup height too high will cause your magnets to push and pull your strings out of tune. The critical factor in the pickup height adjustment is the distance between the pole pieces of the pickup and the strings. Steel guitar pickups from exact reproductions of classic steel guitar pickups like the gibson console grand to sonic upgrades of chicago steel and stringmasters lollar delivers a range of choices to help lap steel and pedal steel players get the best tone and sweetest sustain. 1 setting pickup height too high.

Here s a quick way to tell if this is happening to you. Dating back to the late 1800s in hawaii the lap steel guitar has been gracing hawaiian bluegrass country and dozens of other genres since becoming a major fad in the 1920s and 30s. When you are adjusting your george l s pickups the starting point is at least the thickness of a us quarter 025 or 09 inch 2 mm. The flsl 220 pro features a semi hollow design with two sculpted f holes and the solid center section is topped with raised natural quilted maple that is repeated at the headstock.

This pickup is a bit less twangy than the usual tele lead pickup and will offer you a clean chimey tone but with enough power in the low end for the pickup to not sound harsh. The vorson flsl 220 pro lap steel guitar sounds as good as it looks and it looks incredible. Start with 1 8th spacing at the high strings and 3 16th spacing at the low strings and then you can raise or lower the pickup accordingly depending on the instrument your style of playing etc. Play the low e string at a high fret 15th fret is a good one to start at.

12 string pedal steel l 712 115 00 and lxr16 125 00 helpful hint a good starting point for pickup height adjustment. You might hear a warbling sound.